Timberlake is a dashboard that gives you insight into the Hadoop jobs running on your cluster. Jeff built it as a replacement for the web interfaces currently provided by YARN’s ResourceManager and MRv2’s JobHistory server, and it has some features we’ve found useful:

Avi wrote a Scala framework for distributed learning of ensemble decision tree models called Brushfire. It’s inspired by Google’s PLANET, but built on Hadoop and Scalding. Designed to be highly generic, Brushfire can build and validate random forests and similar models from very large amounts of training data.

Sequins is a static database for serving data in Hadoop’s SequenceFile format. I wrote it to provide low-latency access to key/value aggregates generated by Hadoop. For example, we use it to give our API access to historical fraud modeling features, without adding an online dependency on HDFS.

At Stripe, we use Parquet extensively, especially in tandem with Cloudera Impala. Danielle, Jeff, and Avi wrote Herringbone (a collection of small command-line utilities) to make working with Parquet and Impala easier.

If you’re interested in trying out these projects, there’s more info on how to use them (and how they were designed) in the READMEs. If you’ve got feedback, please get in touch or send us a PR.